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daniel_abadi

  1. The Spanner project which sits under F1 seems to be where most of the action is (replication, xacts), I'm looking forward to that paper.
  2. Interesting talk by Google at SIGMOD this year on their F1 system (static.googleusercontent.com/external_conte…), but 200ms per user action seems slow ...
  3. Wow, shocking result RT @guzdial How do students perform on AP calc if you ask them their gender before test, or after? twitpic.com/9oh11z
  4. RT @AlonHalevy Sigmod: the only Greek run organization that is in good financial shape.
  5. Apparently Tesco actually believes the data mining myth (that diapers and beer are co-purchased). Or maybe it's true?economist.com/node/21554743
  6. Good luck to Alex Thomson who is presenting our Calvin paper (cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/dna/pape…) at #sigmod12 today at 10:30AM (Arizona time).
  7. Everybody says it, but it really is true. Jim Gray was one of the nicest people in the database community. Fame did not get to his head.
  8. I'm glad that Jim Gray's widow (Donna Carnes) finally has some closure. I've heard that this has been very hard on her. bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/18/clo…
  9. The Semantic Web has had too much disappointment and broken promises. Unlike this post semanticweb.com/google-just-hi… I approve of Google's rebranding
  10. Indeed, the brain is AP from CAP. thinkaurelius.com/2012/05/08/str… (I would also say that it is PA/EL from PACELC).
  11. @KentLangley I maintain that a scalable database should be able to achieve the top TPC-C TPS and price/perf by adding more nodes cheaply.
  12. My 1st post in a while: Why Oracle and DB2 are still more scalable than NoSQL and NewSQL on TPC-C, and how to end that: bit.ly/Kxf29h
  13. @KartikRishabh @thaddeusdiamond I'm mostly talking about non-CS majors.
  14. A good example of a good way to think: nytimes.com/2012/04/24/opi… --- instead of going after a crowded market, Yalies should create their own.
  15. @thaddeusdiamond I hope so. Still though, too many Yale undergrads are wasting their energies in starting companies in a super crowded area.